The Gays are one of the many prison gangs inside Emerald City. They are viewed as one of the weakest gangs in Oz, both because the majority of inmates in Oz are homophobic and because they are not in control of anything. The gays are lead by Richie Hanlon until his death, then by Tony Masters, and then by Alonzo Torquemada when he arrives to Oz. In the first half of the series, two of their members, Billie Keane and Richie Hanlon, are bullied respectively by The Italians and The Aryans. In second half of the series, however, some of the gang collaborate with The Irish, The Italians, The Muslims and The Latinos due to their personal friendships. The Gays include Rohan Quine and Fiona Zonioni. Most of the time the gang members are background characters, but occasionally they hold importance to the storyline of major characters.
Plot Summary[]
season 1[]
- episode 1.1 - Billie Keane is brutally beaten by Dino Ortolani in the bathroom after the former flirts with him. His brother Jefferson Keane takes revenge by hiring Johnny Post to burn Dino alive.
- episode 1.3 - Billie Keane returns from hospital but is discarded by his brother for being a homosexual.
- episode 1.5 - Vernon Schillinger pays a drag queen to do a makeover for Tobias Beecher.
season 2[]
- episode 2.4 - Richie Hanlon is brutually raped by Mark Mack and other Aryans in his pod. He is later convicted of murder and pleads guilty to the murder of Alexander Vogel, after being forced by Karl Metzger who is actually an Aryan member.
Season 3[]
- episode 3.4 - Richie Hanlon returns to Em City but is killed by Nikolai Stanislofsky in the showers.
- episode 3.6 - Chucky Pancamo summons Kiki Faye Downing and Tony Masters to his cell and sets them up as go-betweens to ensure Nat Ginzburg steals Antonio Nappa's unpublished memoirs.
- episode 3.7 - Kiki Faye Downing and Tony Masters deliver Antonio Nappa's stolen memoirs to Chucky Pancamo, confirming to him that Nat Ginzburg will kill Nappa. Ginzburg murders Nappa, who is now his cellmate, in the AIDS ward, on orders from Pancamo.
Season 4[]
- episode 4.4 - Jason Cramer is released from Oz with the help of Kareem Saïd
- episode 4.6 - Nat Ginzburg, who is now in death row after confessing to the murder of Antonio Nappa, dies of AIDS.
Season 5[]
- episode 5.8 - Agamemnon Busmalis recieves a letter from his fiancée and he asks Fiona to read it to him.
Season 6[]
- episode 6.7 - Alonzo Torquemada arrives to Oz and takes over The Gays and intends to run the prison.
- episode 6.8 - Alonzo Torquemada starts off by squeezing Chucky Pancamo out of the drug trade and get him and his gang hooked on his D-Tabz. Failing his plan after Carmen Guerra overdoses on his pills but becomes Alvarez's cellmate who Alvarez gives in to letting Torquemada solicitation for his D-Tabz.
Membership[]
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Leadership[] | ||||
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| Picture | Name | Seasons | Status | Overview |
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Richie Hanlon | 2, 3 | Deceased |
Richie led the gay gang in 1998 until he was sentenced to death row which got overturned. When Richie came back to Emerald City, he had his neck sliced open with a barber cut by Nikolai Stanislofsky. |
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Tony Masters | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | Active |
Masters lead the gay gang from 1998 and in 2003 Masters happily gave up his leadership to Alonzo Torquemada. |
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Alonzo Torquemada | 6 | Active |
Alonzo was a Latino inmate who took leadership. He is a nightclub owner and as he enters Oz, he brings on a competition to squeeze the other gangs of the drug trade with D-Tabz. |
Other gay inmates[] | ||||
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| Picture | Name | Seasons | Status | Overview |
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Billie Keane | 1 | Inactive |
Billie Keane was an African-American inmate at Emerald City and then got transferred to Unit C. He was the younger brother of Jefferson Keane. |
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Fiona Zonioni | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | Active |
Fiona was always seen hanging with Tony Masters, Pinkerton & Kiki Faye Downing in Emerald City & later welcoming Torquemada. |
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Kiki Faye Downing | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | Active |
Downing is mainly a background character and is first seen waiting for an appointment with Sister Pete. He is always seen with Fiona, Pinkerton and Masters |
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Pinkerton | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | Active |
Pinkerton was a background character in the season always seen with Masters, Fiona and Downing and later welcoming Torquemada to Oz. Pinkerton later joins with Simon Adebisi when the race tension goes on in Oz. |
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Jason Cramer | 3, 4 | Released |
Jason Cramer was a gay inmate in Unit B. He took part in the boxing tournament representing the gays. Cramer got released from Oz in 2000. |
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Anthony | 3, 4 | Inactive |
Anthony and Cramer were boyfriends in Unit B. |
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Nat Ginzburg | 3, 4 | Deceased |
Nat Ginzburg was an inmate in the AIDs section, Unit E as Antonio Nappa's cellmate who he eventually murders. Nat was sentanced to death and died of AIDs before his execution. |
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Nate Shemin | 4 | Deceased |
Shemin starts having sex with Beecher in Emerald City. Chris Keller kills Shemin in the laundry area. |
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Ronald Barlog | 4 | Deceased |
Ronald was not mixed with any of the gay inmates but had a love triangle between Chris Keller & Tobias Beecher. Barlog later had his neck snapped by Chris Keller. |
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Stein | 6 | Active |
An inmate who takes part in the Macbeth play. |
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Unnamed inmate #1 | 1 | Inactive |
A brief inmate who Schillinger paid to do a makeup Beecher. |
Murders comitted in Oz by The Gays[]
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Victim |
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| Freakie | Richie Hanlon | Pushed from a railing to stop him from raping him. | 1998 |
| Jason Cramer's boyfriend | Jason Cramer | Killed and beheaded | 1998 |
| Antonio Nappa | Nat Ginzburg | Suffocated on Chucky Pancamo's orders. | 1999 |
| OZ Gangs |
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The Aryans - The Bikers - The Christians - The Gays - The Homeboys - The Irish - The Italians - The Latinos - The Muslims - The Others |